Get up! Get up now!

[Ailith Rayner]

Ailith and Jude came back at around 3am. There was no one up and the fire had almost burnt out. Ailith was clutching the papers she had nicked and strode into the Common Room behind Jude. Who of course held the door for her. The exchanged a tight grin. Ailith had recovered enough to remember what she had done. She cringed inside but it wasn't a totally embarrassing. She knew it would have been had Jude gone on about it. But then if he had been that kind of person she probably wouldn't have kissed him in the first place. Why had she kissed him? She was doped to the high heavens, but Ailith got the feeling that wasn't just it. Anyway...

Ailith walked door of the corridor to the girls dorms and look over her shoulder at Jude. He looked as if he wanted to come too but that would break a BIG school rule.
"I won't tell them without you. Promise." She turned back and opened the door.
Right room 16 Ailith rapped sharply on the door of the head's room. No stirring inside. She banged harder.
"With all due respect get up! Get up now! And make yourselves decent enough not to embarrass a boy!" She called through the door and opened it.
Madeleine has woken and was standing in front of the door knife in hand. Kira had woke but was in the process of sitting up. Macy was sitting up with a book in hands with alarm on her face. Ailith assumed Will was asleep still for she was neither up or moving.

[Madeleine Baudelaire&Russ Ford]

There was a banging on the door, and Madeleine awoke from her nighmare with a start, jumping up and swearing colourfully.
There was a muffled shout and more banging.
Blindly reaching for her dagger, Madeleine leapt out of bed and raced to the door, flinging it open, before relaxing. It was only Ailith... and Jude.
For a minute, it had seemed like her nightmare had been brought into life.
Thanking God that she was wearing decent pyjamas, she glared at them. "For the love of God, Ailith!" she started. "This had better be good."

[Macy Deltine]

Macy wrapped a blanket around her, wondering what was happening. She set the book that she was reading on the floor beside her bed, and put her pink-rimmed glasses she was wearing on her head. She hadn't been able to sleep, so she quietly switched on the light be her bed, picked up a textbook for Shape-shifting and Transformation, that her class wern't starting until after Halloween, and put on her glasses as it was too late to get her contacts. She was starting to fall asleep when there was large banging on the door. For a second she thought she was back in her cell, but the door opened revealing Ailith Rayner and a boy, Macy thought he was in Spies too, standing behind her.
Ignoring Madeleine's swearing, she stood up and slowly walked over to them. "What's happeneing?" She asked, her voice tired and cracky. "What are you doing here...at this time...?" She looked at the clock above the door.
"This had better be good." Macy heard Madeleine say behind her. She was right.

[Kira & Lee Norris]

Kira sat bolt upright, pleased of the distraction from her windswept thoughts. The sickening worry that swept around her like a storm all depended on what Jude and Ailith had to say. They'd done it. They must've. They were back, after all, weren't they?
She caught Jude's eyes, and they widened significantly. Kira nodded. Good. It must be something important.
"Madeleine," she said wearily, sliding out of her bed. "Jude and Ailith come knocking at our door at 3 a.m. in the morning, yelling for us to get up, and you're worried they don't have something important to say? Come on, use your brains."
Straightening up, she faced Ailith.
"What did you find?"

[Jude Dorrian]

Jude cleared his throat, hovering at the door. This wasn't a good night for him when it came to feeling awkward. It was bad enough that Ailith had kissed him- the very thought of which brought colour to his cheeks, something he wasn't used to- but worse still, now he was standing at the threshold of an all-girls dorm.
They were in pyjamas for chrissake!
Kira's question gave him a good distraction. He found it easy to look at Kira, because she was like his boss. It helped him to focus.
"It's in code," replied Jude quickly. "One of the leaders I think- Yaman- gave a speech to a heck of a lot of people. I saw a lot of their battle plans, and although my tape was later smashed- don't ask- Ailith found a copy of the speech."
"So Macy can translate that, can't she?" Kira half-glanced at the Head of the Academics, someone Jude only knew by sight.
He grinned awkwardly. "That's what I'm hoping for."

[Macy Deltine]

Macy ruffled her hair with her hand, while Gypsy, who was a cat right now, sleepily got up from the bed and walked over to her legs, purring softly. What? Translating things at three in the morning? Well, she was the head of the Academics, she had to live up to that expectation.
She took the sheet that the guy was holding, and looked at it, but had to squint to read it properly. The she realised that if she put her glasses back on, then she would be able to read it. Well, no-one could be a genius at 3am.
She read though it, but something hit her. She ran back over to her bed, opened a drawer on the table beside it. She got a notebook and came back over to the others.
"When I was in the cell, I could hear voices coming from the other side of the wall. They were talking really strangely. It was obvious it was a code, so I took down a mental notes of all of it. I spent my time translating it, while waiting for someone to return to...um...beat me..." She went quiet, flicking though her notebook. "Give me a few minutes, and we'll be set..." She said, making a few changes to her notes with the ice from her finger.

[Madeleine Baudelaire&Russ Ford]

Madeleine ran her fingers through her hair, pacing up and down the room anxiously.
This had to be really important for Jude and Ailith to come up at 3am... but that begged the question, was a simple speech reason enough? There had to be something else. They had to have some reason to suspect that this was vital...
Then, Madeleine focused on the words "battle plans."
She stopped, before sitting down on her bed so that she was facing Jude, who was standing nervously at the threshold of the room. "Did you hear anyone say anything about the plans?"

[Jude Dorrian]

Something about the look of intensity in Madeleine's eyes reminded him vaguely of something...
"They're putting the Cardsdale villagers- the Youth Revolution, like I think it's called- on the front line. I have this feeling they're doing it- mind, this is just a hunch- to try and eliminate some of us. We'll put so much effort into fighting the villagers, that when the real force comes, we'll already be at a disadvantage."
He paused, catching his breath at the thought of the shining faces, and earnest enthusiasm of the crowd he'd stood with tonight.
He glanced over at Ailith. "My hunches are usually pretty good."

[Madeleine Baudelaire&Russ Ford]

Madeleine put her hands to her temple, swallowing the cuss word rising up in her throat.
Typical Shaun reaction. She'd learned some pretty impressive swearwords from him.
"That sounds like a pretty good hunch," she said, straightening up. "But I can't see us getting that tired out by them. We've beaten a bunch of adults, if it's just teenagers, we might be able to do it. Should be. Do you know if they've had any training?"

[Jude Dorrian]

He shook his head. "If they have, I haven't seen it."
That was it. The intense blaze in her eyes as she got into the right mind-frame- as she got ready- it was the very same look that smouldered behind Yaman's steel grey eyes. A reflection of the passion- the adrenaline that coursed through his veins...
"Anything else?" Kira prompted him.
"Ailith was captured, but she escaped. I heard a woman- sounded like their boss- and two men discussing it. The disguises worked though; they don't know who she really is, but they guessed she was from Orchid. So they're aware we know something's happening."

[Macy Deltine]

Macy looked up at everyone, whom where in conversation. She cleared her throat, trying to get everyone's attention. She didn't want to say what she had translated, it had put fear rattling though her body. They're coming. She took a deep breath and started.
"Okay, I have been able to translate it, oddly, I think I've heard this before...I don't know how, but maybe in a dream, or something." She was having very bad déjà vu. It felt like she had heard it on the radio, but they didn't have radios in the dorms.
"Um...Okay. Welcome to the revolution!
The time has come for us to strike back. You know it as well as I do. Our forces have gathered around in the surrounding No Man’s Land- and we plan to strike the school were it hurts. Our plans, however, were nearly foiled. A close comrade of mine is dead. Ruby was a good woman, and she did not deserve the cruel fate inflicted upon her by those insidious Spies!
Will we stand for this?
Will we let them take us alive?
Will we fall to our feet, and let them stamp all over us?
Think of your families- your friends- all that you have lost because of them, and the life in Cardsdale you have been condemned to!
So, tomorrow, at the stroke of midnight- WE ATTACK!!"
She finished reading and looked up. Everyone was just...staring at her. "This can't be good...can it...?" Macy pointed out the obvious. There was silence in the room, everyone still going thought the words in their head.
Kira stood up, and looked round at everyone. "We better get to work, then." She said, and everyone knew this would be a long day.

[Will Wright]

Will lay on her bed listening to everything everyone said. She lay very still so that they think she was still asleep and it seemed to work.
Macy is good at translating stuff! she thought to herself as she heard her speak the code out to everyone.
"Think of your families- your friends- all that you have lost because of them, and the life in Cardsdale you have been condemned to!
So, tomorrow, at the stroke of midnight- WE ATTACK!!" Macy finished the decoded speech and as she did she felt a rush of anger and hatred twoards the enemy.
You took my parents away from me, well now, it's pay back time! she vowed into herself. She was still half asleep but she could deal with what was being said.
She heard someone shuffle and then Kira's voice rang throughout the room.
"We better get to work, then."
Will groaned into herself as she said this. She had been coming up with a very good lesson for her carers but now ther was no time to carry it out. She was going to have be straight forward with them. She knew what all of their potential was and she knew where she was going to place everybody if there was going to be a big war, but most of all she knew that they were all ready for it, the trouble was...she didn't know if she was ready for it.